The reviews massacred him from day 1 but conceded the money-making. So, in another thread, he's shown with LOHAN-painted fingernails spelling out "no ratings" (re: MSNBC). Earlier today he was CRYING/WEEPING (again), I don't know about what attack on him, but he was SOBBING that he had read a "letter of support" he had gotten during the break and couldn't reveal the source (he always has SECRETS and stuff to-be-revealed-LATER), but sobbed the clue it was "from an organization."
Anyway, back at the time of the big debut of the novel Gawker or somebody skewered that there was actually a TRAILER for it like for a movie, and in the 2nd link below it's there again in all its creepy KIPLING creepiness.
I actually cracked up to see his phrase, "the Founders' Keepers"!1 Oh, and "faction" is hilarious, too!1
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/14/AR2010061405423.htmlGlenn Beck's paranoid thriller, "The Overton Window"
By Steven Levingston
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
The success of Glenn Beck's novel, "The Overton Window," will be measured not by its literary value (none), or its contribution to the thriller genre (small), or the money it rakes in (considerable), but rather by the rebelliousness it incites among anti-government extremists. If the book is found tucked into the ammo boxes of self-proclaimed patriots and recited at "tea party" assemblies, then Beck will have achieved his goal.
The story line, which fictionalizes Beck's well-known paranoia about a secret Big Government plan to crush the liberties of well-meaning citizens, is an extended call to arms, a rallying cry to his angry foot soldiers long stirred by his rantings on Fox News. As the last line of the book warns, "We're everywhere. . . . The fight starts tomorrow." ....
In a foreword, Beck notes that his thriller belongs in a category called " 'faction' -- completely fictional books with plots rooted in fact." He attaches an afterword of nearly 30 pages that contains citations to references in the story: information on the financial bailout, unemployment, measures to ensure government operation after a disaster and the like. He laces his plot with these facts in the same manner he employs them on his TV show, to lend credence to his fantasy of a nefarious government scheme to subvert the Constitution.
But enough seriousness -- this is a thriller! Anyone who has tuned in to Beck's show knows that he is sometimes joined on-screen by best-selling thriller writers such as Vince Flynn and James Rollins. In his foreword, Beck notes his love of the genre and acknowledges that "the goal of most thrillers is to entertain." Sadly, he seems to have learned little from his thriller-writing friends. ....
Levingston is a senior editor of Book World. http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-becks-overton-window-ad-try-noGlenn Beck's 'Overton Window' ad: Try not to laugh. We dare you.
By David Neiwert Thursday Jun 10
.... (QUOTE: ) (Will) Bunch reported that Beck told the gathering the story depicts the rise of a citizen’s organization called
the Founders Keepers, “a group of people that just won’t give up.” What follows, Beck said, is “a battle and a civil war, and life is upside-down planetwide." ( :UNQUOTE)
Yep. Pretty much the identical plot as the novel that inspired The Order and the Oklahoma City bombing -- as well as a number of other violent far-right extremists. ....
Already, we get to see the trailer his crack
head team over Glenn Beck Inc. came up with. ....
FWIW, this (the trailer, linked above) isn't Beck-written text. These are lines taken from Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The Gods of the Copybook Headings." (It's a favorite of The Derb's, too.)
Today on his radio show, after the folks at HuffPo observed that this was gobbledygook, Beck noted the early reaction to the trailer. He said the book "will drive the left insane". Really? Or will it just establish yours, Glenn? ....
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